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The Han army's breakthrough was at Wating Pass, but the main force of the Han army was Muxia Pass more than 20 miles away. The purpose of the Han army was very simple to capture Xiao Pass, but the prerequisite for seizing Xiao Pass was to defeat the Wuhuan people entrenched in the Xiao Pass area. Muxia Pass was the stronghold of the Wuhuan people.

The Han army had passed the Danzheng Gorge and entered the town in the Zhuxiang Basin. The people of the town had fled all over the town, and the town was covered with dead bodies. After seven or eight days, the weather was hot and the air was filled with pungent stench. The town could no longer enter. In order to prevent the plague, Liu Jing ordered the entire town to burn, and the raging fire engulfed the town, and the flames soared into the sky for more than ten feet, and the rolling smoke rushed into the sky.

Liu Jing stood on the hill and watched the burning fire several miles away. His eyes turned to the towering mountains further away. The Great Wall was winding among the mountains. One of the gaps between the mountains was the famous Muxia Pass. At this time, Jia Xu slowly walked up and smiled: "This fire will probably burn the fighting spirit of the Wuhuan people."

Liu Jing shook his head gently, "It's not enough to turn on this fire, and it also requires the cooperation of Watingguan. I hope they don't disappoint me."

"They are all generals who have experienced war and will not disappoint His Highness, but the Wuhuan people may disappoint His Highness."

"Why" Liu Jing turned around and stared at Jia Xu.

Jia Xu smiled and explained: "If Bian Shu really wanted peace sincerity, he should come to take the thorns to his Highness and apologize to him before our army entered Danzheng Gorge, and restore the former Wuhuan Captain. In that way, we can seize Xiaoguan and Anding County at the lowest cost."

Liu Jing stared at the distant mountains for a moment and said lightly: "To be honest, I don't want them to surrender. The Han Dynasty's umbrella's guardian Wuhuan now seems to be a complete mistake. Let the Hu people be autonomous, and the final result is the Hu people's separatist. The trend is now very obvious. If I ignore it, in a few decades, the Five Barbarians will establish a country. It will be difficult to conquer them again. So I want to use this opportunity to conquer them with iron and blood, completely break them up, and integrate them into the Han people."

Jia Xu pondered for a moment and said, "Wuhuan and Qiang Di may be able, but the Xiongnu probably cannot. After all, their foundation is on the grassland south of Yinshan, and at most it is to defeat them and force them to retreat to the grassland."

"Let's take the first step first"

Liu Jing took a deep breath and said, at this time, he saw a newsman standing not far away with the guards, and asked, "What's the news there?"

The newsman was sent by Liu Zheng. He hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said, "Report to Your Highness, General Liu has captured Wating Pass and Wating City. General Ma Dai led 5,000 cavalry out of the pass and headed north, and General Wang Ping led a thousand barbarians to the north along the Great Wall, ready to seize Muxia Pass at any time."

"How is the casualties?" Liu Jing asked again.

"Report to your Highness, six people were killed and twenty-one injured in the Eagle Strike Army. All of them occurred when they attacked Wating Pass. However, Wating City did not encounter any resistance. The Wuhuan soldiers in the city saw that the city gate had been lost, so they abandoned the city and fled. Our army wiped out the remaining enemies and captured nearly eight surrendered troops."

Liu Jing nodded. This battle was very beautiful, so there was such a huge gap in casualties. He smiled at Jia Xu and said, "Military advisor, I suddenly had an idea. Maybe we don't have to stop at Xiaoguan, but we can continue to go north."

Jia Xu pondered for a moment and said, "The reason why the proportion of casualties is that the Eagle Strike Army is the elite of the Han army, and on the other hand, it is related to the fact that the Wuhuan people are not good at attacking and defensive wars. If the Wuhuan people fight us with cavalry, the situation will be different. Please don't be anxious, but you should do it step by step."

"The military advisor is right, I'm a little impetuous."

Liu Jing accepted Jia Xu's advice, and he calculated the time in his mind. The barbarian soldiers led by Wang Ping should have approached Muxia Pass at this time. He was worried that Wang Ping would be in trouble, so he turned around and ordered: "Sorry Wu Ban to see me."

Wu Ban commanded the five thousand heavy shield crossbow army, which was conducive to support. After a moment, Wu Ban rushed over and bowed with his fists, "See Your Highness"

Liu Jingling said: "You can lead five thousand heavy shield crossbow troops around to Muxia Pass to support General Wang Ping, and do not make any mistakes."

"Abide by the orders of humble duties"

When Wu Ban retreated, he immediately led the five thousand heavy shield crossbow army, bypassed the town from the small path, and rushed towards Muxia Pass.

The Han army recruited eight thousand barbarians in Yinan. They were good at mountain warfare, but for most of the time, they were mainly logistics soldiers, responsible for operating wooden cows to transport food on the mountain roads. They participated in the battle only once, and when they were fighting against the Qiang soldiers in Hexi, the five thousand barbarians fought a fierce battle with the Qiang soldiers under the leadership of Wang Ping.

Today is their second direct involvement in the battle. It is also led by Wang Ping, and the Thousand Barbarians were shouldering the important task of capturing Muxia Pass. After Wang Ping occupied Wating Pass, he led his army to the north along the Great Wall and rushed to Muxia Pass more than 20 miles away.

This Great Wall was built by the Qin State in the Warring States Period and was mainly defended against the invasion of the Western Rong in Guanzhong. After nearly five years of erosion in the late Warring States Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Great Wall has become dilapidated. The Great Wall, which is more than ten miles in the middle, has collapsed, and the army needs to march on the rugged and steep ridges.

At this time, the characteristics of barbarian soldiers who were good at mountain combat were fully revealed. They ran as if they were walking on flat ground. When the sky was dawn, Wang Ping led a thousand troops to Muxia Pass. The army bent behind a rocky brick. The Great Wall was cut off for another two miles, but the enemy had arrived unexpectedly. A few miles away, a Wuhuan army of more than 2,000 people was coming quickly along the Great Wall.

Wang Ping turned a quick thought and immediately guessed where the army was going. He should have rushed to Wating Pass to reinforce. The beacon in Wating City had been lit last night. It was obvious that there was news from Muxia Pass that they were not good at night marching, so they rushed to reinforce after dawn.

As the enemy was getting closer, Wang Ping waved his hand back and signaled the soldiers not to worry and waited for the enemy to enter the mountains. He whispered to his deputy general Guduo: "You can lead a thousand brothers to go around under the ridge and cut off their retreat."

Guduo nodded, stepped down and waved his hand and said, "First Battalion follows me."

He led a thousand soldiers to run quickly down the mountain and ran around a large circle towards the enemy's back. Wang Ping patiently waited for the enemy to approach. The two thousand barbarian soldiers under him all set their bows and arrows, ready to go.

This army was indeed sent by Chi Ning to reinforce Wating Pass. Although there were beacons in Wating City last night, the beacons did not ignite, which made Chi Ning very confused. There were only two possibilities. Either Wating Pass was captured by the Han army with a thunderclap, and the defenders at the pass had no time to ignite the beacon, or the Han army captured Liupan Pass further south and took a detour from outside the pass to attack Wating City outside the pass.

But no matter which possibility it was, the Wuhuan army could not march in the dark night without seeing each other. It was mainly because of the obstruction of more than ten miles of mountains. They could only wait until the sky was a little dawn before setting off for Wating Pass. However, they did not expect that they would encounter the Han army going north in half.

Two thousand Wuhuan troops had left the Great Wall and marched hard in the collapsed Great Wall rocks. At this moment, a riot suddenly broke out in the soldiers in front. They discovered the enemy hiding in the rocks. Only a sound of buzzing sounds were heard. The barbarian Han army raised their bows and shot thousands of arrows at the dense Wuhuan soldiers. Most of the barbarian soldiers were hunters, with accurate archery skills and received strict training from the Han army. The Han army's high-quality composite bow made them look like tigers. A series of arrows shot by, and several Wuhuan soldiers were killed and injured, and a sudden chaos was caused.

They turned around and retreated, but an enemy army came from behind and cut off their retreat. Seeing that Guduo had already arrived, Wang Ping shouted, "Kill up"

Two thousand barbarians shouted, waving their swords and spears toward the Wuhuan soldiers, and the two sides fought fiercely in the pile of rocks.

On Muxia Pass City, Chi Ning stared blankly at the thick smoke that rushed into the sky in the distance. The smoke and dust had floated above Muxia Pass, covering the morning sun. In the sky, gray and black clouds rolled, as if the end of the world was coming. All the Wuhuan soldiers were in fear. They were originally cavalry running around in the wilderness, but now they were like down-and-out eagles, standing on the city of Guan to resist the Han army heading north.

Chi Ning sighed softly. He kept dividing troops to rescue Wating Pass, so that there were less than a thousand defenders in Muxia Pass. Once the main force of the Han army came in large numbers, could he resist it?

At this time, a soldier rushed to report: "Report to the young chief, the army we are going to assist Wating Pass is attacked by enemy forces at the broken wall, with heavy casualties and almost unable to resist."

Chi Ning was shocked and turned his head to look south. The broken wall of the Great Wall was only five or six miles away. If his army was defeated, wouldn’t the Han army arrive immediately? Just when his heart was in a state of confusion, a soldier pointed at the city and shouted: “Look, the enemy is coming.”

Chi Ning also saw that a Han army with thousands of people at the foot of the mountain was rushing towards the Guancheng, and it was getting closer and closer. It was obviously coming to reinforce the Han army on the front of the city that was about to come. Chi Ning felt a chill in his heart, and his sharpness disappeared, and his heart was about to retreat. He immediately shouted to his left and right: "Prepare to retreat."

The morale of the Wuhuan soldiers was sluggish and had been waiting for this order. Although Chi Ning just said he was preparing to retreat, thousands of Wuhuan soldiers on the top of the city went down to the Yangma City outside the pass, and nearly 10,000 war horses were raised in the Yangma City under the city.

In less than a clock, nearly a thousand soldiers retreated, and there were less than a thousand soldiers on the top of the city. The soldiers shouted: "Young Chief, retreat quickly, everyone is gone."

At this time, countless deserters appeared on the city wall on the south side, and several of them were the remnants of Wuhuan Army defeated by Wang Ping's army. Behind them, the Thousand Barbarian soldiers shouted and came to Guancheng. At the same time, the five thousand heavy shield crossbow soldiers led by Wu Ban also rushed to Guancheng, and countless military crossbows were aimed at Guancheng.

The personal soldiers were in a hurry and several people rushed up to pull him, but before the personal soldiers dragged him, Chi Ning turned around and ran to the city. He actually knew better than anyone else. If he didn't retreat, he would have no chance.
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